Rock Quotes

The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

I would say that longtime fans of the Rolling Stones will be thrilled with these results, and new fans will understand why they're the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world.

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.

It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

At the moment we're trying to keep what we've learnt. Because we learnt a terrific amount with 'Deep Purple In Rock,' it took six months to make that album: we think it paid off, really. I can honestly say that it's the first album we've been 100 percent satisfied with; it gave us a hell of a lot of confidence.

Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.

I like a girl to look relaxed. Tight jeans and rock t-shirts are cute!

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.